The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city.

Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here

The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned.

Love is a tempestuous mistress. And none of us shall ever master her.

He who's never loved cannot be good.

These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to get laid.

One basketball to rule them all,” Leo muttered.

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark